{"id":618,"date":"2018-10-06T20:13:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/governancesolutions.wordpress.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2022-04-05T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T16:37:57","slug":"will-the-real-politician-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunesishq.com\/notes\/will-the-real-politician-please-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the real politician please stand up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\"><strong>POLITIC-IAN versus POLITIC-ASTER<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">What is the difference between a politic-ian and a politic-aster?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Let us first define politic, -aster and politicaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0 .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:'Calibri Light', sans-serif;color:#2f5496;font-weight:normal;\">DEFINITIONS<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Politic comes from the L. word politicus and is defined by 1828 Webster\u2019s dictionary as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Wise; prudent and sagacious in devising and pursuing measures adapted to promote the public welfare; applied to persons; as a politic prince.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Well devised and adapted to the public prosperity; applied to things.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">A true Politician is thus one who looks out for the welfare of the city or state s\/he serves\u2014using wise; prudent and sagacious policies and measures adapted to promote the public welfare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">How about a Politic-aster? Who is s\/he?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">First lets define &#8211;<strong>aster<\/strong>. The pejorative suffix <strong>-aster<\/strong> (meaning something that is inferior, small or shallow) gives us some delightful words when it comes to name-calling. A reviewer brands a poet a poetaster (an inferior poet) and the reviewee might return the favor by calling the former a criticaster (an incompetent critic). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Thus a politicaster is defined as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">A petty politician; a pretender to politics.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">A petty politician; a pretender to political knowledge or influence. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">An unstatesmanlike practitioner of politics: a petty or contemptible politician<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">An inadequate or contemptible politician.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;\">\n<li style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">an ill-suited or disliked politician<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">Timorous, trimming politicasters, ALL for <strong>THE PARTY<\/strong> without thought of THE STATE \u2014New York Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:#000000;\">&#8220;The politicaster is looking for small opportunities &#8212; for such pickings and stealings as a careless public may leave for those of his kind. The great politician is looking for great opportunities.&#8221; &#8211; Samuel McChord Crothers; In Praise of Politicians; <strong>The Wall Street Journal<\/strong> (New York); Jan 5, 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0 .0001pt;page-break-after:avoid;font-size:16pt;font-family:'Calibri Light', sans-serif;color:#2f5496;font-weight:normal;\">ETYMOLOGY<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:black;\">Politicaster (n.): &#8220;a petty, feeble, or contemptible politician&#8221; [OED], 1640s, from Italian or Spanish politicastro, noun use of adjective meaning &#8220;political,&#8221; from Latin politicus (see political).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:black;\">What happens when good men refuse to politic?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0 0 .0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family:'American Typewriter', serif;color:black;\">The great parliamentarian Edmund Burke said, \u201cThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\u201d WILL THE REAL GOOD MEN OR TRUE POLITIC&#8217;IAN PLEASE STAND UP!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLITIC-IAN versus POLITIC-ASTER \u00a0 What is the difference between a politic-ian and a politic-aster? \u00a0 Let us first define politic, -aster and politicaster. 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